Method of fabricating lined vessels



w. A. HOWARD ET AL 2,148,427 a Feb. 28, 1939.

Patented Feb. 28, 1939 UNITED STATE METHOD OF FABRICATING' LINED VESSELS- Wayne A. Howard, Whittier, and Turner C. Smith,

Huntington Park, Calif assignors to Socony- Vacuum Oil Company, Incorporated, New York, N. Y., a corpor tion oi New York Application March is, 1938, Serial No. 196,132

2 Claims. 29-162) s PATENT OFFICE This invention relates to the art of lining steel and other metallic vessels with thin sheets of corrosion or erosion resisting metal.

The object .of the invention is to provide an improved method of attaching supporting memlining sheet and bolt through both the lining and the shell. Both of these methods have disadvantaxes which 'are recognized in the art but which have not heretofore been overcome.

- Our improvement over present methods consists in fastening the bracket to the wall of the vessel by bolting or welding, forming in the liner sheet an opening of the shape of that face of the bracket which abuts the wall of the vessel but of slightly less area; upturning the edges of the liner sheet about said opening until the opening has been expanded to pass over the bracket, and finally welding the upturned edges of the liner sheet to the bracket.

This procedure is illustrated in the attached drawing, all in section through the vesselwall, liner, and bracket, in which Fig. 1 illustrates a form of the invention in which the bracket is bolted to the wall of the vessel;

Fig. 2 illustrates a modification in which the bracket is attached to the vessel wall by a iillet weld, and

Fig. 3 illustrates a modification in whichthe attachment is made by a fillet weld, the edges of the bracketbeing chamfered.

Referring firsiTto Fig. 1,- III and II are frag- D |2---l2 around the bracket II which is drawn against the inner face I! of the vessel wall by bolts such as indicated at I! and which should be bottomed in thebracket metal as shown. The edges of the liner are then welded to the facesof the bracket as at |6-|6, leaving an expansion channel l'l--l'|.

In the form shown in Fig. 2 the construction is the same except that the bolts ii are omitted and the bracket is attached to the inner wall of the 'vessel by the relatively heavy peripheral weld indicated at lS-IB.

In the form shown in Fig. 3 the construction is the same as in Fig. 2 except that the face of the bracket abutting the vessel wall is chamfered as at l9-l9 and the weld l8 placed in the chamfer.

This general method oi attachment has the advantages that the load imposed on the bracket is carried solely by the relatively heavy wall of the vessel and not on the relatively frail liner and that the upturned edges of the liner provide a limited degree offiexibillty along the line of juncture andtend to prevent the breaking of the weld between liner and bracket which often occurs, by reason of diilerential expansion and contraction, when the liner is attached to the bracket at a 90 angle.

We claim as our invention:

1. The method of permanently placing an internally projected supporting member within a metallic vessel having a liner of a metal different from that of said vessel, which comprises: attaching'said supporting member directly to the wall of said metallic vessel; placing said liner around said supporting member and uptnrning the edges of said liner adjacent said member, and welding the terminal faces of said upturned edges to said member at a distance from the internal face of the wall of said vessel.

2. A method as in claim 1 in which said attachment is produced by bolting said member to said wall.

TURNER 0. SMITH. WAYNE A. HOWARD. 

